Freehand Stem Issue

[cigrmaster]

If the inside of the stem and inside shanks are rough and not smooth, turbulence will build up and make the pipe gurgle. A properly made pipe never gurgles, and smokes cool and dry. A low end Savinelli can easily fit into the category. If I had to choose, I would go with an Italian mfg over a Danish. all day. I personally smoke American artisan made pipes almost exclusively and never deal with any kind of gurgle.

 

[BROBS]

Yes, I wondered about a rough interior or restricted airway but what puzzles me is why the pipe cleaners don’t come out soaking wet, but the more I think about it the problem must be something like this or a flaw or something. It just seems like if the cleaners aren’t coming out wet then you shouldn’t be able to blow moisture out but I’ve repeatedly done exactly that so regardless of what I think it’s happening anyway.

Is it tight to fit a pipe cleaner especially in the slot area?

 

[canucklehead]

Cut the stem in half lengthwise, and post pictures. We need to figure this out. For science and stuff.

 

[BROBS]

create a vivisection of the stem and let us know

 

[craig61a]

A step or gap inside might cause such a problem. If drilled from each end there might be a slight misalignment. If you had an X-Ray machine you could do an NDI...

 

[verporchting]

The airway is very tight, so much so that I use Dill’s pipe cleaners rather than my usual Long’s. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner other than finding it so odd that the pipe cleaners weren’t wet when I could blow moisture out. The simplest and most obvious answer is that Dills aren’t very absorbent rather than super secret physics defying and otherwise impossible hyperspace cloaked null chambers maliciously concealing pockets of pipe juice.... ?‍